Is Conroy deceiving the public about what his filter will ban?

Senator Conroy says awarding him the title of Internet Villain of the Year is misguided and that the people have been mislead into what the Government is doing in terms of filtering the Internet. However, in doing so the Minister for Communications has shown he is either deliberately misleading the public about the type of content that will be banned or he has no understanding of classification systems in Australia.

And the type of content you intend to ban isn’t confined to sites like those you mentioned. Refused classification is an extremely broad classification category which includes material surrounded by political debate like The Peaceful Pill Handbook. Movies like Ken Park and adult pornography with fetishes like spanking are also RC. Even content that depicts or deals with drug misuse and addiction can end up being classified RC.

depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified; or

describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or appears to be , a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not); or